Powercolor HD6870 PCS+ Review | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Tue, 31 May 2011 07:23:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png Powercolor HD6870 PCS+ Review | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Powercolor HD6870 PCS++ Review https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/zardon/powercolor-hd6870-pcs-review-2/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/zardon/powercolor-hd6870-pcs-review-2/#comments Mon, 30 May 2011 11:47:50 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=46734 Powercolor have been one of the more active AMD partners in recent months, releasing many modified cards with custom cooling solutions for all sectors of the market. Today we are looking at their latest HD6870 PCS++ which is supplied with a proprietary cooler and substantial ‘out of the box' overclocks. AMD's HD6870 has proved a …

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Powercolor have been one of the more active AMD partners in recent months, releasing many modified cards with custom cooling solutions for all sectors of the market. Today we are looking at their latest HD6870 PCS++ which is supplied with a proprietary cooler and substantial ‘out of the box' overclocks.

AMD's HD6870 has proved a good seller in recent months, targeting the lower end of the gaming market, but offering good performance at modest resolutions. Powercolor are aiming to push this specific board design as far as possible by increasing the core clock by a whopping 75mhz and the memory clock by 100 mhz (400mhz effective).

Powercolor HD6870 PCS++ AMD HD6870 AMD HD5870
Die Size (mm2) 255 255 334
Transistor Count 1.7 billion 1.7 billion 2.15 billion
Memory Bandwidth 4.6Gbps 4.2GBps 4.8GBps
Stream Processors 1120 1120 1600
Texture Units 56 56 80
ROPs 32 32 32
Core Clock 975 mhz 900 mhz 850 mhz
Memory Clock 1,150mhz 1,050mhz 1,200mhz
Memory 1GB GDDR5 1GB GDDR5 1GB GDDR5
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Powercolor HD6870 PCS+ Review https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/zardon/powercolor-hd6870-pcs-review/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/zardon/powercolor-hd6870-pcs-review/#comments Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:39:11 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=24298 Well it was a long time coming, but finally we have a HD6870 with a custom cooling solution. Powercolor have just released the HD6870 PCS+ graphics card which is not only supplied with a rather sexy heatpipe cooler, but substantial overclocks. Both HD6850 and HD6870 were received warmly by the enthusiast audience, specifically due to …

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Well it was a long time coming, but finally we have a HD6870 with a custom cooling solution. Powercolor have just released the HD6870 PCS+ graphics card which is not only supplied with a rather sexy heatpipe cooler, but substantial overclocks.

Both HD6850 and HD6870 were received warmly by the enthusiast audience, specifically due to the extremely competitive price points. An overclocked HD6870 for instance could hold onto the performance levels of the last generation HD5870, for a portion of the price.

As with most reference AMD products, we found the HD6870 cooler to be rather disappointing and have been waiting patiently for a partner to release a modified card. Powercolor are the first to hit the KitGuru labs and we have high hopes that this will be a substantial improvement over the reference design.

Powercolor HD6870 PCS+
Core Speed 940mhz
Memory 1GB GDDR5
Memory Bandwidth 256 bit
Memory Speed 1100mhz (4.4Gbps effective)
Eyefinity Yes
Direct X Support DX11
Crossfire X Yes
Output DL-DVI, SL-DVI, HDMI/ 2x mini display port
Game Bundle Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
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